To
start editing your favorite videos the library is your starting point.
From here youíll be able to locate and add the images/videos/sounds you
want to edit by simply use a drag and drop! Sure you can directly capture
videos from VideoWave 3.5. This is one of the improved features of this
new release: you can use predefined configurations and switch between
different configurations by a single mouse click. By example predefined
capture template are available for ATI All In Wonder 128 boards or Matrox
Marvel ones. This brand new release hopefully manages with success the DV
standard and IEEE1394 (FireWire) protocol. These two standards are
essential to acquire videos from digital camcorders. But in return the
videos youíll capture will fit in enormous filesí size. The program
now manages the MPEG 1 & MPEG 2 codes that allow users to capture MPEG
2 videos in real time whatever the hardware and the source you used. The
cutting room allows you to fine-tune the beginning and ending pictures of
video sequences by easily adding starting points and end points. From it
you can also add pictures or sound. This sequence will be build together
in a dynamic scenario where youíll be able to choose a wide range of
scene transitions effects (more than 60 Creative minds will be satisfied).
When you edit DV videos youíll get an instant preview of the final
sequence, thanks to the unique and brand new SmartDV technology only
offers by VideoWave III.

You
can also add special effects to your videos such as ripple, swirl
thatíll make your video looks like a pro. But you can also change the
color appearance of your video clips by using the different filters that
VideoWave carries: it gives great results to soften a video when thereís
a too much dominant color. You can also add great titles to your movies by
using the text animator: you can choose the colors of your text, the
outline and shadow styles and even the font. From it you can animate your
text to make it bounce, scroll on the final video.

You
can even save your favorite text effects (thanks to the 3.5 update) by
simply clicking a button. The audio studio will allow you to fine-tune the
soundtrack of your film: youíll be able to edit sounds from 8bits mono /
11kHz and 16bits stereo 44kHz.Finally
you can define the color settings, brightness, and luminosity directly
from the darkroom.

Video
Format

As
written before, VideoWave III offers two different qualities video mode:
MPEG II or DV one. During our tests we capture the same video in DV format
or MPEG II format and we found no big quality difference between the two
different files. But the MPEG II file is 4 times smaller than the DV one.
So we really think that the MPEG II support is a real Ďplusí of this
software thatíll make you save your precious hard disk storage space.
Sure once your video is build you can use the output mode of VideoWave to
record your favorite video to any external video sources such as VCR.

Help

Surprisingly
MGI VideoWave III doesnít have an HTML based help file, too bad! However
the standard help file is complete and its contents can be rated as good.
Concerning the userís guide itís simply a marvel since itís very
complete and illustrated. Itíll help most users to start using VideoWave
and their camcorders. It also includes a video glossary!

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